Here are all the doors I snapped during our trip to Rome, Florence, Montepulciano, and Montalcino in July, 2025. Yes, that’s right, I take photos of doors while on vacation. As a bonus, here’s the hand burned door our old Sonoma County CA house sported as well as our newly painted door at our current …
Author Archives: Mike Rivera
Impressed…But Only in the Slightest, Unimportant Way
Trump is clearly a liar, corrupt, inept, incurious, narcissistic, and probably a few other negative adjectives that aren’t coming to mind. But, damn it, he has a fantastic signature.
Wannabe Chef
Snowfall
We’ve had a weird first half to the 2024-2025 snow season in Denver. Cumulatively, this season’s 15.7” of snow isn’t far off the recent historical average of 18.6”. Variable differences, right? No biggie. But let’s take a closer look, shall we? Here are the average snowfall amounts, in inches, 1991-2020. September .8 October 3.9 November …
Another Day, Another Rush Anecdote
My go-to band, Rush, is never far from my daily existence. Spotify obviously has me pegged as a fan, Peloton rides will surprise me with a song from their catalogue (more of that please!), they pop up in movie soundtracks, and some lyrics have a knack for being spot on during particular situations. Most recently …
Bouldering
Living in Colorado, climbing is pretty popular—even on a Friday night when I’m writing this. Maybe I should pick it back up, but that’s for another time and another post. Right now, Reese is in her happy place bouldering. And while I hate the drive to get here (there’s another bouldering place way closer), at …
Heavywinter—Young Edition
This site has been around since 2004, though technically I got the domain in 2003. But I consider 2004 the true year I began to blog. I don’t write much anymore, but that’s gonna change (you’re in the presence of the proof yo!). The Wayback Machine has snapshots of the blog even after I deleted …
Ladies and Gentlemen, My Wife
All I did was switch out my jeans for sweats after I got home from work. An innocent wardrobe change. I had a brick red button down shirt and the sweats I pulled on just happened to be red too. I walk downstairs, my wife looks over, and announces “you look like a dirty pad.” …
Random Yard Projects
South Side Fence The house came with an old, rickety fence on the south side of the property. Our neighbors suddenly got a lot more light once it came down. Unfortunately for them, we do plan to put a new fence up though not as big. If you can actually make out a little black …
North Side Yard
On the north side of our house sits our kitchen with its many windows and skylights as well as two bedrooms and a bath. Just outside is 13-21 feet of yard between us and our neighbors. These photos show what the area looked like when we bought the house. We inherited a patch of grass, …